Luck

So my husband always makes fun of me as I am a little superstitious! Hence why I haven't posted earlier. Since Friday miss Matilda has made leaps! Friday they changed her ventilator to a less aggresive one that didn't do all the breathing. They started her on feeds which one of the nurses said is miraculous she is even starting that 4 days after surgery. She finally started having bowel movements so we know her bowels are working! And this was all before 2pm on Friday! Then when we came up Saturday they had taken out her umbilical lines which meant we could finally hold her!!!!!! So the weekend was eventful as she held her 2 ccs of breast milk down. But when they up the dose to 4 ccs unfortunately it was just too much! So Sunday and Monday she was spitting up very consistently. Oh and did I mention they took all her sedation away as they wanted to wake up her bowels. Which we were happy for her to be off of it. But this made her very uncomfortable. Every time we came to see her on Monday she was more distressed each time. That morning Dr. Pierce (neonatologist) said they would probably take ventilator away soon and she would just be on oxygen. I gasped and she said oh don't worry it won't be today!! When paul and I came to see her Monday night she was very upset crying, temp was up. They were about to give her a breakthrough med when Dr. Redfield(neonatologist) said alright let's take her off this is Giving her more grief than good! So he ordered to shut the ventilator down!!! I had to sit down as it hadn't even been a week since surgery and she was almost breathing on her own! We watched as they took it out and she already settled down and seemed like a new person! The next day we didn't visit very long as we wanted her to rest and get use to being off the ventilator. I am here this morning holding her and I finally have my little girl. Paul and I were so excited Monday night to finally see her face! She is just gorgeous!
Our next big hurdle is feeding, so I will be updating at the end of the week! Thank you all again for your thoughts and prayers paul and I feel so lucky that Matilda is doing so well! We actually are still pinching ourselves as 3 wks ago we were so scared of everything. But Matilda really has accepted every challenge they have given her! Thanks again!

Holding our beautiful girl for the first time!!

                                                        Taking the breathing tube out!!!

                                          And our very content Matilda the next morning...

                                          Grandma holding Matilda for the first time

                                       Next hurdle feeding!!!...............to be continued